Ways in which erotica is so not like real life...

[catherineldf]

or else I'm just getting old, hard to say.
Things I plan to avoid for the rest of my writing career:
1. Dialogue along the lines of "I'm a free spirit and don't want to answer to anyone else. So let's do the wild thing now, baby." Repeated several times with slight variations in the course of 4000 words or so for EMPHASIS.
2. Plots that depend on characters 'falling in love' with someone they've known for about 15 minutes whose main claim to fame is dialogue as described above. And the ability to balance what seems like a 30 gallon barrel of lube on the back of a Harley. Not that that's not impressive.
3. The best part is that after liberal application of lube (and I mean by the dumptruck) the 'falling in love' occurs after the luber(s) disappear for years and years from the life of the 'lubee.'
Maybe there's something in the lube? I have to wonder.

Comments

Fall in love or fall in lube?

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

With that quantity, perhaps the luber(s) are going missing by falling (or getting pushed) into the lube?

Re: Fall in love or fall in lube?

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I longed for that to happen around the 4th reference or so! Alas, no. :-( The joy of review-type writing; only a hundred or so more pages to go.